Certificate of ownership in one person's name may be surrendered
If a car or trailer title is only in one person's name, that person can turn it in and get a new title that adds one or more other people as owners. A fee is required, and the registration gets updated to match the new title.
301.677. in one person's name may be surrendered — new issued for one or more other persons — fee. — A certificate of ownership for a motor vehicle or trailer issued in the name of only one person, on of that person and payment of the fee required for an original certificate of ownership, may be surrendered to and a new certificate issued by the in the name of that person and one or more other persons; and the current valid shall be so transferred into the names of the owners shown on the new certificate.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1987 H.B. 605 § 2)
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